PANEL #2: MEDIATED LANDSCAPES and SECOND LIFE TOUR w/ Jon Rafman
Panelists: Robert Pietrusko, Ingo Gunther, Igal Nassima, Jon Rafman, and Katja Loher
Moderator: Cornelia Lund
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Wednesday, August 10th
Artist Talk 7PM-8PM
Second Life Tour with Jon Rafman 8PM-8:30PM
HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
596 Broadway, #602, NY, NY
DESCRIPTION
A panel of artists, theorists, and inventors discussing the commonalities between building landscapes in both the online world and real world. A focus will be on the current trends in visual data in comparison with urban planning, architectural processes, and the virtual landscapes in gaming culture. Visual data, urban planning for remote countries and an exploration of current and historical cartographic methodologies will be exhibited providing insight into an increasingly digitized and overlapping world between mapping the real and online spaces.
MODERATOR
Cornelia Lund
Cornelia Lund, Fluctuating Images, Berlin, Germany
Cornelia Lund is a media theorist and curator living in Berlin.
She holds a PhD on “French Poetry Illustrations” from the University
of Stuttgart, where she has also worked as a research associate at the
International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies from 2001
to 2004. Since 2004, together with Holger Lund, she has been running
fluctuating images (Stuttgart/Berlin), a platform for contemporary media
art (www.fluctuating-images.de). From 2009 to 2010 she has been
working on a DFG research project on German documentary film at the
Potsdam Film & Television Academy (HFF Konrad Wolf), currently she is
teaching in the MA Intermedia at the University of Applied Sciences
Vorarlberg in Austria. She has widely published on the relationship of
image and text, moving images and sound as well as dance and film,
and she is co-editor, together with Holger Lund, of “Audio.Visual – On
Visual Music and Related Media” (2009).
PANELISTS
Robert Gerard Pietrusko is an engineer-designer focusing on the
relationship between contemporary technology and spatial products. His
work has been exhibited at the SF MoMA, The Venice Architecture
Biennale, and The Foundation Cartier, among others, and has been
featured in Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Domus. Recently,
Gerard co-founded Harvard University’s new digital humanities research
initiative— metaLAB. He is currently a 2011 artist-in-residence at
the ZKM Institute for Visual Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
http://warning-office.org/
Ingo Gunther
since 1989, Günther uses globes as a medium for
his artistic and journalistic interests. In 1989, 9 months before the
reunification of Germany, he founded the first independent TV
station in Eastern Europe Channel X, Leipzig in order to contribute
to the establishment of a free media landscape.
http://www.worldprocessor.com/
Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman is a Montreal-born film-maker and new media artist.
He holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and a BA in Philosophy and Literature from McGill University.
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Katja Loher
Katja Loher projects her videos onto the surface of large shiny
orbs hanging in the galleryspace. Loher‘s sculptural video works
address a field of tension between escapist phantasy and oppressive
reality. Her surreal worlds are populated by realistic figures that
tumble aboutvirtual spaces and appear to be intent on preventing
ecological collapse.
http://www.katjaloher.com/
Igal Nassima is a programmer and an artist from Istanbul, Turkey. He is the director of 319 Scholes Performance Space, a venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Past shows include, US V THEM: A Showcase of Young Improvisers: Part of THEM AND NOW, New Museum, NYC Storm Your Brain, Whitney Museum, NYC Poetry in the Post-Now, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC Arts For Transit – MTA – Bryant Bark/42nd Street Station,NYC Spring Show 2010, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYC Winter Show 2009, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYC LESS – The Annex, NYC. 2006 – 2008 Bushwick Art Project, 3rd Ward, NYC Passage, 319 Scholes Performance Space, NYC. http://materials.nassima.com
WHERE
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, #602
New York, NY 10012
http://www.harvestworks.org
